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  • Caramba!!

    Nina Marie Martinez

    Natalie and Consuelo are like-minded individuals who live in Lava Landing, CA. When they aren't working at The Big Cheese Plant, they get all dolled up for the racetrack, or go for at a tequila float at The Big Five Four. They urgently need to get Co...

  • Anansi Boys

    Neil Gaiman

    Fat Charlie Nancy's normal life ended the moment his father dropped dead on a Florida karaoke stage. Charlie didn't know his dad was a god. And he never knew he had a brother. Now brother Spider's on his doorstep--about to make Fat Charlie's life...

  • Charmed & Dangerous

    Candace Havens

    Monday, 11 P.M. Sweet, Texas Spells: 2 Dead guys: 0 Cute guys I want to sleep with: 1 I know my purpose: To rid the world of evil, one bad guy at a time! Currently, I've got a gig as a kind of one-witch secret service to the British Prime M...

  • Colony

    Melinda Metz; Laura J. Burns

    YOU ARE THE CHOSEN ONE Welcome to Sunnydale High, where midterms and peer pressure are the least of your worries. The Stake Your Destiny series returns Buffy Summers and the Scoobies to the glory days of high school. But this time you control the ac...

  • Paths Not Taken

    Simon R. Green

    I’m John Taylor. I was born in the Nightside, that square mile in the hidden center of London where it is always the hour of the wolf, where gods and monsters walk side by side and where every dark question ever asked can be answered -- for a price...

  • A Song in the Dark

    P.N. Elrod

  • Blind Trust

    Leslie Esdaile Banks

    From the hurricane-ravaged Caribbean to Philadelphia's halls of power, this suspenseful sequel to Betrayal of the Trust follows gutsy Laura Caldwell, a financial genius and brilliant beauty who is ready to put a dangerous chapter in her life behind h...

  • Contact Zero

    David Wolstencroft

    Framed and dispossessed for a crime he did not commit during his first assignment, a recent Spy School graduate learns that several of his fellow classmates have been murdered, a situation that forces him to search for the enigmatic Contact Zero, a m...

  • The Darwin Conspiracy

    John Darnton

    From the author of the bestselling Neanderthal comes this novel of gripping suspense and scientific conquest -- a page-turning historical mystery that brilliantly explores the intrigue behind Darwin and his theory of evolution. It's 1831, and aboard...

  • The Double Eagle

    James Twining

    In Paris, a priest is murdered, his mutilated body dumped into the Seine. He has taken a secret with him to his death -- a secret that is revealed during the autopsy, reawakening memories of Depression-era politics and a seventy-year-old heist. Je...

  • East Wind Storm

    Alexander M. Grace

  • Operation Hell Gate

    Marc Cerasini

    THE COUNTDOWN IS ON...! Within twenty-four hours a nightmare will be unleashed that could cause the death of untold millions and devastate a great nation. It's a plot being carried out by the unlikeliest of allies. A powerful mole within the deepe...

  • The Paradox Syndrome

    Ken Hodgson

    Laura Masterson been fascinated by the Spanish Flu epidemic that killed over fifty million people. Recovering a specimen of the virus could lead to a vaccine that might cure or prevent all infections. The dry climate of Paradox, NM could have preserv...

  • Perfect Killer

    Lewis Perdue

    No fear. No conscience. No mistakes. For over seventy years, Project Enduring Valor has sought the Holy Grail of combat medicine: a drug that would turn ordinary soldiers into ruthlessly efficient killers. Now, after decades of secret trial and ...

  • TRUE

    Michael Cordy

    How can a drug that makes people fall madly in love be a bad thing?So thinks Professor Bacci when he inadvertently unlocks the biochemical key to falling in love, and develops a drug capable of creating emotions indistinguishable from the real thing....

  • Tyrannosaur Canyon

    Douglas Preston

    A moon rock missing for thirty years... Five buckets of blood-soaked sand found in a New Mexico canyon... A scientist with ambition enough to kill... A monk who will redeem the world... A dark agency with a deadly mission... The greatest scienti...

  • Without Mercy

    Jack Higgins

    In Jack Higgins's acclaimed bestseller Dark Justice, Sean Dillon and his allies beat back a terrible enemy, but at an equally terrible cost. One of them was shot, another run down in the street. Both were expected to survive--only one does... As D...

  • Veniss Underground

    Jeff VanderMeer

    From the New York Times bestselling author of Annihilation, Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel, Veniss Underground, takes readers on a journey to a labyrinthine city of tunnels, and the dangers lurking behind each turn. This paperback edition features ...

  • Dark Warning

    Jude Watson

    WHO ARE THE LAST OF THE JEDI? Obi-Wan Kenobi is on a mission. Along with the former Jedi apprentice Ferus Olin and a headstrong kid named Trever, he is trying to keep the Jedi's most important secret from the inquisitive Empire. With Boba Fett on th...

  • Death in Winter

    Michael Jan Friedman

    Long before Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the legendary Starship Enterprise, he fell deeply and hopelessly in love with Doctor Beverly Crusher. Though, for one reason or another, Picard never acted on his feelings, he found a measure of con...

  • The Road to Dune

    Brian Herbert; Kevin J. Anderson

    The Road to Dune is a treasure trove of essays, articles, and fiction that every reader of Dune will want to add to their shelf. Includes never-before-published chapters from Dune and Dune Messiah, original stories, and a new short novel by Brian Her...

  • The Unseen Queen

    Troy Denning

    The epic Star Wars odyssey enters a new frontier as the heroes of the New Jedi Order confront a monstrous evil -- insidious, unseen, and insatiable. . . . Despite being given new worlds to populate, the insectoid Killiks have not found peace. An u...

  • J. Michael Straczynski's Rising Stars

    Arthur Byron Cover

    Twenty years after a comet strikes the Earth near Pederson, Illinois, gifting 113 yet-to-be-born children with extraordinary super powers, the Specials, feared by normal humans because of their power, have dispersed across the globe, only to reunite ...

  • JSA

    Geoff Johns

  • Retief's Peace

    William H. Keith Jr.

    Peace, it's wonderful! Except when the Peace Movement is actually a subterfuge by the warlike and imperialistic Krll to get the Terrans to pull out of a planet, leaving it defenseless and ripe for conquest. The Terran diplomats have their usual prima...

  • Asimov's Aurora

    Mark W. Tiedmann

    The Third Law of Robotics states that a robot must protect its own existence, as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws. After the diplomatic failures of the Spacer mission on Earth, Ambassador Ariel Burgess and robot...

  • Asimov's Chimera

    Mark W. Tiedmann

    Coren Lanra is the head of security for DyNan Manual Industries. A former Special Service agent, he's never cared for bureaucracy, piracy, or deception. Lanra's troubles begin when Nyom Looms, daughter of DyNan president Rega Looms, is murdered durin...

  • Asimov's Mirage

    Mark W. Tiedmann

    The First Law of Robotics states that a robot may not injure a human being, or through inaction, allow a human to come to harm. At a crucial conference uniting the Spacers, the Settlers, and representatives of Earth, Senator Clar Eliton of Earth and ...

  • Babylon Babies

    Maurice G. Dantec

    “What makes the novel so haunting is its vision of a near future in which society has fractured along every possible national, tribal and sectarian fault line.” -- The New York Times Book Review

    In the hidden “flesh and chip” breedin...

  • Conventions of War

    Walter Jon Williams

    The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- at the mercy of the merciless insectoid Naxid, who now hunger for domination. But the far-flung human descendants of Terra have finally tasted li...

  • Days from a Different World

    John Simpson

    `I have already touched on my childhood in Strange Places, Questionable People. But the further through life I get the more I want to revisit it. I want to look at the whole of my childhood, the England I grew up in and my family. Family and country ...

  • Dogs of Truth

    Kit Reed

    The Dogs of Truth contains 17 new or previously uncollected short stories. Included are "High Rise High," about a student revolt at the ultimate "secure" high school; "Focus Group," where a star-struck fan dictates the fate of soap opera characters ...

  • Fifty Degrees Below

    Kim Stanley Robinson

    Bestselling, award-winning, author Kim Stanley Robinson continues his groundbreaking trilogy of eco-thrillers -- and propels us deeper into the awesome whirlwind of climatic change. Set in our nation's capital, here is a chillingly realistic tale of ...

  • Hulk Visionaries: Peter David - Volume 2

    Peter David

    The gray Hulk's out to get the Leader and neither Man-Bull, Halflife, nor the Hulkbusters can stop him! The confrontation ends explosively as the drab-skinned demolisher is blown into a new world: Las Vegas?! Villains perish and rise in the culminati...

  • Invasion of the Road Weenies

    David Lubar

    WATCH OUT FOR THE ROAD WEENIES! A town is overrun by road weenies--a.k.a. joggers--who never smile. A girl thinks she's too old for Halloween...until she finds a special pair of gloves. A boy takes a shortcut to an unexpected place. A mummy takes hi...

  • Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens, Volume 1

    Stephen Leigh

    A man without memory, tied by blood to a city of robots. At his side, a mysterious woman whose life and memory he saved, whose love he has won for a second time. His name is Derec; hers is Ariel. And their story has only begun to be told. . ....

  • Isaac Asimov's Robots and Aliens, Volume 3

    Bruce Bethke

    This pair of robot mysteries, enhanced with a pair of essays by Asimov himself, reflects the colorful world of thinking robots, subterranean Earth dwellers and witty repartee that characterized the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning landscape of the belov...

  • Lions

    Paul Morgan

    Tells the story of the British & Irish Lions momentous 2005 tour to New Zealand. From the selection of the players in April through to the final match in Auckland in July, readers will relive the excitement of Rugby's ultimate test. The players' them...

  • Marvel Masterworks: Captain Marvel, Volume 1

    Roy Thomas

    Branded a traitor by the vicious Colonel Yon-Rogg of the Kree for defending the people of Earth, Captain Mar-Vell assumes the human identity of Walter Lawson and becomes the planet's protector against an awesome array of interstellar baddies! Prepare...

  • Old Soldiers

    David Weber

    OLD SOLDIERS NEVER DIE Captain Maneka Trevor was the sole human survivor of the Dinochrome Brigade's 39th Battalion ... but she hadn't wanted to be one. The Bolo known as "Lazarus" -- Unit 28/G-179-LAZ -- was the 39th's sole surviving Bolo ... but h...

  • Orphan's Destiny

    Robert Buettner

    The battle of Ganymede taught Jason Wander about the devastation of war. After seeing the deaths of his troops, as well as his lover, the battle-scarred soldier is ready for peace. At twenty-five, General Jason Wander has fought and won man's only...

  • The Presence

    Bill Myers

    The first subjects exposed to The Presence went insane. Now a far more terrifying experiment is about to begin... A diverse group of unusual characters is airlifted to a remote mountain lodge. Here they hope to participate in a seance connecting them...

  • The Protector's War

    S.M. Stirling

    It's been eight years since the Change rendered technology inoperable across the globe. Rising from the ashes of the computer and industrial ages is a brave new world. Survivors have banded together in tribal communities, committed to rebuilding soci...

  • Rogmasher Rampage

    Mark Crilley

    After months of intensive training, Billy is finally ready to go on his first solo creatch op for AFMEC (Allied Forces for the Management of Extraterritorial Creatches). Godzilla-like monsters are menacing the Chinese mountain village of Hua Qing. Bi...

  • Bitter End

    Christine Kling

    In her acclaimed novels of suspense, Christine Kling gives readers good reason to believe that if Travis McGee and Kinsey Millhone had ever hooked up, their child would have grown up to be Seychelle Sullivan: a beautiful, savvy heroine with a knack f...

  • The Blood Red Sea

    Ron Faust

    Dan Shaw has been practicing law only four months and he's already burned-out. Add the fact that he's just lost his girlfriend and the cops are scouring his dubious past, and it's no wonder Shaw decides to set sail for the summer. But even alone in t...

  • Bone Factory

    Steven Sidor

    The aging riverboat casinos and decrepit cut-rate hotels that line the dark waters running through downtown Booth City reveal the seething underbelly of a Midwestern city down on its luck. Booth is filled with a collection of lonely souls looking for...

  • Boo Hiss

    Rene Gutteridge

    When a soccer field complex springs to life seemingly overnight in the sleepy community of Skary, Indiana, and the local coffee shop begins offering computer access along with its suddenly overpriced beverages, goosebumps start popping up all over ...

  • Eye of the Beholder

    Kathy Herman

    Things Aren’t Always How They Appear! Guy Jones is about to burst his buttons. He just won the biggest case of his career and is being hailed by his law partners. But his wife, Ellen, is consumed with her quirky, needy friends and misses his victo...

  • The Female of the Species

    Joyce Carol Oates

    A young wife is home alone when the phone rings in "So Help Me God." Is the strange voice flirting with her from the other end of the line her jealous husband laying a trap, or a stranger who knows entirely too much about her? In "Madison at Guignol"...

  • Fever

    Sean Rowe

    Matt "Loose Cannon" Shannon is an ex-FBI agent turned head of security for the world's largest cruise line. It's a career move that owes more to his predilection for the bottle and a few well hidden skeletons than his fondness for the Miami sun. I...

  • The Great Pretender

    Millenia Black

    What a story! It made me wonder if I can install a Lo-Jack on my husband before his next business trip. Do they make one for men? -Lisa Earle McLeod, bestselling author of The Triangle of Truth The #1 Internationally Bestselling Family Drama You Simp...

  • Gun Theory

    Daniel Way

    Everyone who's laid eyes on Harvey is dead. That's because Harvey is a hired killer whose victims never see him until it's too late. Through years of practice, Harvey's appearance and demeanor have become so devoid of humanity that he has become invi...

  • Half Broken Things

    Morag Joss

    A gripping tale of psychological suspense perfect for the readership of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell, Half Broken Things is a novel that peers into the lives of three dangerously lost people...and the ominous haven they find when they find each o...

  • The Ice Harvest

    Scott Phillips

    “BITTERLY FUNNY . . . [A] SLEEK FIRST NOVEL . . . NOIR CRIME . . . HAS FOUND A STERLING NEW CHAMPION IN PHILLIPS.”"The New York Times Book Review“A FUTURE HARD-BOILED CLASSIC"TIGHT, COLD, AND CACKLING WITH IRONY. On Christmas Eve [in Wichit...

  • In Shadows

    Chandler McGrew

    In a small Maine valley, thirteen-year-old Pierce Morin, born blind and deaf, possesses a terrifying gift: he can hear evil whispering -- and knows an elusive, deadly force is stalking the people he loves.... Detective Jake Crowley has run far awa...

  • Into the Fire

    Richard Laymon

    Kidnapped by a maniac... Pretty, young Pamela was a very happy newlywed, with a loving husband and a beautiful home. But all that changed the night Rodney broke in. He's been obsessed with Pamela since high school, and now he intends to make her h...

  • Isaac Asimov's Have Robot, Will Travel

    Alexander C. Irvine

    Robot specialist Derec Avery and Calvin Institute attache Ariel Burgess - last seen in Asimov's Aurora by Mark Tiedemann - return in an all-new adventure. A human has been murdered, and all the clues point to a robot as the killer. But how can that b...

  • Joplin's Ghost

    Tananarive Due

    Joplin's Ghost is a chilling tale of a star-in-the-making whose life goes haywire as she is haunted by the ghost of a long-dead music legend. When Phoenix Smalls was ten, she nearly died at her parents' jazz club when she was crushed by a turn-of...

  • King Kong

    Edgar Wallace

    The giant prehistoric gorilla King Kong is one of the most recognized images in our culture. So great is the mighty Kong's hold on the popular imagination that his story -- a gripping yarn of man versus nature, coupled with a fantastical update of th...

  • Last Light

    Terri Blackstock

    The first installment in a thrilling series in which a global catastrophe puts a family’s survival at risk -- and both reveals the darkness in human hearts and lights the way to restoration.Birmingham, Alabama, has lost all power. Its streets are j...

  • The Last Victim

    Kevin O'Brien

    A Killer's Masterpiece At first, Bridget Corrigan's work with her twin brother's senatorial campaign is an exciting distraction from the trauma of her messy divorce. But everything changes when Bridget is reminded of the secret she and Brad have bee...

  • Live Bait

    Francine Pascal

    The greatest weapon against a serial killer? A girl with no fear. There's been a murder. And it isn't part of some FBI training exercise. Late one night, in the middle of a rainstorm, Gaia and her roommate stumbled upon an actual killing. Sinc...

  • The Man from Beyond

    Gabriel Brownstein

    From the winner of the PEN/Hemingway Award, a debut novel featuring Harry Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. It is April 1922. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle arrives in New York on a spiritualist crusade. To packed houses at Carnegie Hall, he displays photo...

  • The Monsters of Gramercy Park

    Danny Leigh

    An electrifying game of cat-and-mouse between an imprisoned mastermind and a crime writer with a hidden past. In this darkly suspenseful novel, Lizbeth Greene, a celebrated crime novelist whose inspiration has run dry, seeks out Wilson Velez, a gang ...

  • My Very Own Murder

    Josephine Carr

    After years of marriage, she's got her own apartment and her own life. A murder will occur in thirty days. It's up to Anne Johnson to prevent it... Free-spirited and freshly divorced, fifty-year-old Anne Johnson is living the good life. With ...

  • Out of Season

    Robert Bausch

    Four characters burdened by the past intersect at a fading resort town when County Sheriff David Caldwell is called in to restore the order destroyed by the town bully, Cecil Edwards-a giant of a man who operates the Ferris wheel. Caldwell must also ...

  • The Piano Factory

    Jonathan Davies

    Jimmy Reilly has always protested his innocence, and Jeremy Scott, his lawyer, has always believed him. He's convinced that the case against Reilly will collapse, that he'll leave court as a free man. But there's a loophole in the law, and Reilly fal...

  • The Printer's Devil

    Paul Bajoria

    The notorious inhabitants of London's criminal underworld are all in a day's work for Mog, the printer's apprentice, who prints their "wanted" posters. A real-life meeting with a convict entangles Mog in a secret scheme in this suspenseful tale....

  • Rat Run

    Gerald Seymour

    In the military family there is no worse crime than cowardice. Malachy Kitchen, Intelligence officer, posted to Iraq, appears guilty of it while on patrol with an infantry platoon ambushed by insurgents. When word spreads that he was ‘yellow’ und...

  • Revenge in Exile

    Scott McCauley

    With crime lords openly challenging the Mexican government for control of the country, and an exiled former Mexican president plotting his return to power, Mexico City is a ticking time bomb--and one that an ambitious US National Security Adviser can...

  • The Savior

    Faye Snowden

    People are dying in The Pit. The poorest section of California's Dunhill County seems to have a love affair with tragedy, yet lately, more and more unfortunate souls are slipping through the cracks. Dr. Kendra Hamilton got herself off the mean stre...

  • Shark Tank

    Tom O'Neill

    When some Camden, New Jersey drug dealers get blown away by a smooth operator who's impersonating a cop, the case falls to two bleary-eyed, wise-cracking police vets, Detective Sergeant Joe Macuzak and his long-time partner, George Whitcomb. But befo...

  • Sinners and Saints

    Eileen Dreyer

    A TRAUMA NURSE IN EXILE. Forensics specialist Chastity Byrnes is trying to put the past behind her. It has been ten years since Chastity made accusations against her father that shattered her family... and ten years since she's seen her sister, Fait...

  • Straight into Darkness

    Faye Kellerman

    LUSTMORD: The joy of murder. The terrifying concept seems apt for the slaying of a young society wife dumped in the vast English Garden in 1929 Munich. Homicide inspector Axel Berg is horrified by the crime and disturbed by the artful arrangement ...

  • Betrayal Of Trust

    Tracey Victoria Bateman / Tracey Bateman

    It was a hotly contested senatorial race, and Matthew Strong's unexplained decision to withdraw piqued Raven Mahoney's interest. This could be just the story to guarantee her success as a TV journalist, particularly since their past relationship incr...

  • Beyond The Rules

    Doranna Durgin

    Rule #1: Family Comes First Rule #2: If You Belong to Kimmer Reed's Family, Ignore Rule #1 She'd never planned to see her so-called family again. But that didn't help Hunter Agency operative Kimmer Reed when her brother showed up on her doorste...

  • Bullseye

    Jessica Andersen

    TOUGH. TENACIOUS, TRUE BLUE. Secret Service agent Isabella Gray thought those traits described bounty hunter Jacob Powell to a T. When the secretary of defense's family was ambushed on her watch, she knew she needed to recruit the sexy ex-Special ...

  • Crazy Hot

    Tara Janzen

    LOVE HAS NEVER BEEN THIS WILD. THIS DANGEROUS. THIS HOT. Only the most dire emergency could send paleontologist Regan McKinney racing across the West in search of a man. But her grander has vanished, and Quinn Younger could be the missing link. Wh...

  • Die Before Nightfall

    Shirlee McCoy

    "EVEN OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY, BAD THINGS HAPPEN." Raven Stevenson was in Lakeview barely twenty-four hours when she heard those ominous words. She'd come to the small Virginia town to reconcile with her brother and forget the haunting memories of...

  • Double Play

    Penelope Neri

    When he met her online, she was a woman living in daily fear of her husband's chilling, systematic abuse. But she had a plan, a place to go, and someone to go with. That was her last message before signing off forever. Elizabeth Harper vanishe...

  • Exposure

    Dee Davis

    The men and women of Last Chance, Inc. are back in another heart-stopping tale! British special agent Nigel Ferris has devoted his life to avoiding relationships -- until he's called upon to help foil a terrorist plot, and comes face-to-face with ...

  • The Golden Girl

    Erica Orloff

    The It Girls: They're rich, fabulous...and dangerously underestimated. It Girl: Madison Taylor-Pruitt Mission: Infiltrate a multimillion-dollar company to spy on the CEO and suspected killer -- her father! The whistleblower who died before s...

  • Hard Truth

    Mariah Stewart

    TELL THE TRUTH AND SHAME THE DEVIL Two children who mysteriously disappeared twenty-one years ago are the last thing on Lorna Temple's mind when she returns to her Pennsylvania hometown to sell the old family property in the wake of her parents' p...

  • Medusa Rising

    Cindy Dees

    She's a doctor. A healer. Can she kill in the name of good? Dr. Aleesha Gautier had asked herself that question many times since joining the Medusa Project, the United States' first all-woman Special Ops team. Could she take lives -- even to prote...

  • One BAD Night

    Sherrilyn Kenyon
    in

    Now, three novellas about BAD agents are collected in one steamy volume! In the all-new "One BAD Night" the bureau believes that agent Jason Banks has sold them out. Agent Samantha Winslow has never particularly cared for Jason, whom she reluctan...

  • Operation: Midnight Tango

    Linda Castillo

    HOSTAGE TO LOVE Taking gorgeous corrections officer Emily Monroe as his hostage, undercover CIA agent Zack Devlin was trying to escape with his life. But when he helped himself to Emily's full red lips and her body melted into Zack's hard edges, s...

  • Peek-A-Boo Baby

    Delores Fossen

    PLAYING PEEKABO HAS NEVER BEEN SO DEADLY Months after the birth of her son, single mom Delaney Nash discovered a horrible truth: the sperm bank she'd used was under investigation for unethical practices. Complicating matters even further was the v...

  • Perfect Assassin

    Wendy Rosnau

    "PERFECTION HAS REPLACED PERFECTION." -- HOLIC REZNIK, WORLD-CLASS ASSASSIN With the world's most wanted assassin behind bars, the good men of ONYXX could relax. Until the killing started again -- and every shot bore the mark of the master. But t...

  • Pride of a Hunter

    Sylvie Kurtz

    TWO SCARRED HEARTS As far as former CIA sniper Lucinda Taylor was concerned, her heart died the day she pulled the trigger that left her a widow and a single mom. Then fellow agent Dominic Skyralov came to town to hunt down a dangerous scam artist...

  • Return To Stony Ridge

    Dani Sinclair

    A CHILD IN JEOPARDY It wasn't every day that P.I. Teri Johnson pulled a gun on a man in his own home, but she was desperate. Her sister was in a coma and her missing nephew was in grave danger. She had to find the little boy before he was lost for...

  • Security Measures

    Joanna Wayne

    He would break all the rules to protect his daughter... APB DADDY! Beautiful, widowed, a single mother -- Janice Stevens had been given a new identity, if not a new lease on life, when she testified against a mob killer. For fifteen years she&#...

  • Shadows All Around Her

    Catherine Mulvany

    ONE MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE. ONE MYSTICAL CLUE. When Caitlin O'Shaughnessy's stepfather -- world-renowned Medieval English professor Magnus Armstrong -- is abducted in Scotland, she jets across the Atlantic to help find him. Her only clue: a ...

  • Slow Burn

    Julie Garwood

    An unpretentious beauty who radiates kindness, Kate MacKenna doesn't have a bad bone in her body--or an enemy in the world. So why are bombs igniting everywhere she goes? The first explosion brings her face-to-face with a handsome Charleston police d...

  • Touch of the White Tiger

    Julie Beard

    "YOU'RE ASKING ME TO GIVE UP MY CAREER TO LOVE YOU? THAT'S NOT FAIR, MARCO." Angel Baker knew the risks. Every day she put her life on the line to protect those Detective Ric Marco and his overwhelmed police force couldn't. In twenty-second-centur...

  • The Convenient Bride

    Teresa McCarthy

    A Dangerous Liaison Facing financial ruin, Lord Clayton Clearbrook inherits his uncle's fortune with the stipulation that he must marry within three weeks--an opportunity he dare not refuse. Not many weddings in the ton are based on love, after al...

  • Dame Fortune // A Dandy in Disguise

    Meredith Bond

    SEARCHING FOR A WEALTHY HUSBAND... As the spirited daughter of a famed archeologist, Rose Grace has led a life of grand adventure. But in an instant, everything changes. Now it's Rose who must take charge of her unruly younger sisters, and it's Rose...

  • Dedication

    Janet Mullany

    For Old Time's Sake French aristocrat Fabienne Argonac Craigmont escaped the Reign of Terror--only to lose her head over the rakish Adam Ashworth. As she remembers it, he seduced and abandoned her; Adam, however, still feels the sting of her rejec...

  • Lady Dearing's Masquerade

    Elena Greene

    Hearts in hiding She became the ton's most notorious widow after kissing a costumed stranger at a masquerade, her reputation destroyed overnight in a swirl of spiteful rumor. Shunned by polite society and unable to forget years of a desperately un...

  • A Perfect Gem

    Melynda Beth Skinner

    A new-found love is a treasure indeed... SEEK AND YOU SHALL FIND... Conscientious and caring, Miss Leah Gray secretly returns the trinkets that her eccentric Uncle John pilfers from the unwary--but the dear old scamp just picked the wrong pocket....

  • Waltz with a Vampire

    Maggie MacKeever

    Emily Dinwiddie's Reasons To Seek Out Count Revay-Czobar 1. I suspect he is a vampire. Who better to help me solve the mystery of my father's murder, especially when my dear papa would have been thrilled to learn such creatures really do exist? His ...

  • Wicked and Wonderful

    Valerie King

    SHE CAN RESIST ANYTHING... Why, the infuriating man, Judith Lovington fumes. For the past few years, she has enjoyed life as a songstress with a group of traveling actors. Better still, she's escaped her noble family's dictates--and an unwan...

  • Amaranth Moon

    Janet Woods

    A touching romance set in Regency Dorset Twenty-year-old Geneva Tibbetson's association with the Earl of Ashby goes back to her childhood, when he gave her a pendant with a blue stone, and told her that if she looked at a new moon through it and the ...

  • Angel Charm

    Tamela Hancock Murray
    in

    One unique handcrafted angel brings joy to others in two charming novellas penned by a talented team of authors. In the first story, the angel is created. In the second, the angel is passed on to soften hardened hearts. This special Christmas collect...

  • Bluebonnet Spring

    Amanda Harte

    It can't be a coincidence that the band is playing "Stranger in Paradise," not when that's exactly how Rebecca Barton would describe herself.

    No matter how beautiful the Hawaiian honeymoon resort is, it's no place for a widow with two children an...

  • Confessions of a Boyfriend Stealer

    Robynn Clairday

    MESSAGE BOARD
    About Genesis Bell Queensheba at 1:02 a.m.
    i’ve heard you’d better not leave your guy alone with her! not if you DON’T want to lose him >:p
    It’s not her fault 007ugo at 1:45 a.m.
    You got it all wrong! If anyone’...

  • Counting Raindrops Through a Stained Glass Window

    Cherlyn Michaels

    -The surest way to ruin a relationship is to marry the man you love.+ At least that+s what Vanella Morris believes. So when Alton, her longtime boyfriend and the love of her life, proposes, Vanella is faced with a dilemma: Unable to convince Alton to...

  • Dancing on Thorns

    Rebecca Horsfall

    Ten years in the making, this sweeping, evocative, and graceful novel will capture the hearts of readers with its vivid portrayal of a close-knit group of friends and a love that won’t be denied.

    Jonni Kendal and Jean-Baptiste St. Michel hav...

  • Falling Through the Cracks

    Barbara Haynie

    "Every American down here is escaping something," expatriate Henry Whitman tells young vacationer Iris Bloom. Iris has drifted off-course from her Colorado family's solid influence. Attaching herself to a charming tree-sitting activist in Oregon by t...

  • Fame, Glory, and Other Things on My To-Do List

    Janette Rallison

    A lot of girls dream of going to Hollywood and becoming famous. But they shouldn't -- because, hey, I don't need any more competition than I already have. I'm determined to make it as an actress, even if that means having to put up with a bit part ...

  • The Farmer's Wife

    Rachel Moore

    Poppy Lovering is feeling somewhat frustrated with life as a farmer's wife in a remote corner of Cornwall. Spending her days baking bread or mucking out pigs under the watchful eye of her overbearing mother-in-law is hardly the glamorous life she had...

  • Fooling Around

    Linda Turner
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    Before inheriting half a detective agency, Josie London's only adventures came courtesy of her favorite books. Now, suddenly she was donning disguises and teaming up with her new partner, Wiley Valentine, to trail a mobster -- a man who'd use any mea...

  • Glynette's Corporal

    Gena Cline

    To honor her father's dying wish, Glynette, a beautiful, talented young woman from the East, marries Anniston McCrae, an ambitious army captain who intends to make a name for himself in the West.

    She solemnly resolves to love Captain McCrae and b...

  • Holiday Hope

    Wanda E. Brunstetter

    One beautiful, hand-tied patchwork quilt is the common thread linking hearts and renewing lives in these two charming Christmas novellas. In the first story, the quilt is lovingly created by a dying woman. In the second story, the quilt is passed on ...

  • How To Kill A Rock Star

    Tiffanie Debartolo

    "Funny, tender, edgy. I wanted the love story to go on forever." -- Joan Johnston, bestselling author of No Longer a StrangerWritten in the wonderfully honest, edgy, and hilarious voice she perfected in God-Shaped Hole, Tiffanie DeBartolo shines in a...

  • Kiss of Death

    Josie Litton

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    Diana Les Becquets

    It’s the summer before Lucy’s senior year in high school, and life in her sleepy Louisiana town is about to be turned upside down. Her mama’s flirting with the dark stranger who runs the art gallery, her best friends Mary Jordan and Evie have b...

  • Mad About Jack

    Gayle Kasper

    Sophisticated Holly Hanford inherited her father's used car lot, which she has built into a classy business of previously owned lovelies. Then Jack Murdock comes to town and starts up his own lot, "Mad Jack's." When Holly's cars are vandalized, she's...

  • Making Over Maggie

    Tracey J. Lyons

    Maggie Monroe has always been independent, headstrong, and capable of handling just about anything. So when her aunt, Margaret, hires Samuel Clay to `assist' Maggie in the opening of a dance hall, Maggie is not amused.

    The dance hall was her proj...

  • The Man in the Shadows

    Ingrid Weaver
    in

    Private investigator Erika Balogh is obsessed with a dead man. NYPD detective Sloan Morrissey has been missing for a year, but Erika is sure she's spotted his powerful form stalking the dark streets...sure she's inhaled his scent in her bedroom. Is s...

  • Midsummer Meltdown

    Cathy Hopkins

    "So what's the big mystery surprise?" asked Squidge. "Can't say," I replied. "But don't worry. It includes you." "All of us?" asked Cat. "Me, Squidge, Mac, and Becca?" "Oh yes. And you're going to love it." Lia is over the moon becaus...

  • A Midsummer Night's Murder

    Julie Miller
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    When English professor Hannah Greene is recruited to accompany a university group on an extreme-adventure wilderness hike, she just prays she'll survive the trek through the mountains. Especially when one by one, people start dying. In order to stay ...

  • Never Say Never

    Dwayne Joseph

    Tired of their current relationships with arrogant, selfish men who are not worthy of their attention, three women--Ressa, Carmen, and Erica--risk everything to follow their dreams and find the perfect man. Original....

  • Oksana // Ever in My Heart

    Susan K. Downs; Susan May Warren

    The fate of generations of Anton Klassen's heirs for years to come rests in the decisions he makes amidst revolutionary battles to love and protect one woman. But not even his promise to love can make Oksana feel safe with the secrets she harbors- se...

  • The Painted Drum

    Louise Erdrich

    “Haunted and haunting. . . . With fearlessness and humility, in a narrative that flows more artfully than ever between destruction and rebirth, Erdrich has opened herself to possibilities beyond what we merely see -- to the dead alive and busy, to ...

  • Patchwork Christmas

    Colleen Reece; Renee DeMarco

    An Heirloom Quilt Mends Tattered Hearts A retired schoolteacher, Olivia Forester wants to leave one last legacy for two of her students and rewrites a portion of her will. Then an old patchwork quilt arrives on the doorsteps of two couples just wh...

  • A Question of Loyalty

    Catherine Jones

    Yvie first meets Adam and Pammy Clifton as neighbours on the same 'patch' in Germany, where she has been posted with soldier husband, Richard. Their friendship is cemented by the shared experience of army life, but is put to the test when the relatio...

  • Strawberry Angel

    Pamela Griffin
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    One unique handcrafted angel brings joy to others in two charming novellas penned by a talented team of authors. In the first story, the angel is created. In the second, the angel is passed on to soften hardened hearts. This special Christmas collect...

  • A Summer Sentence

    Carolynn Carey

    Megan Marsh was just passing through McCray County, Tennessee on her way to a career in Chicago, but after a run-in with an overzealous deputy involving a bee, a slap, a speeding ticket, and a heap of misunderstanding, she finds herself suddenly imme...

  • Teach Me

    R.A. Nelson

    Teach Me invites readers inside an experience that fascinates everyone -- an affair between a teacher and student -- and gives an up-close-and-personal answer to the question: How does this happen? The hardcover edition of Teach Me was a Booksense Fa...

  • Texas Christmas Brides

    Cathy Marie Hake

    Mayhem ensues when Peony Potter and Lacey Mather arrive in Cut Corners and find themselves the hapless (but not helpless) victims of matchmaking schemes. No matter what foul plots are afoot, these ladies have minds of their own. How far will the medd...

  • Texas Christmas Grooms

    Pamela Griffin

    Mayhem ensues at Christmas when meddlesome matchmakers try to gift-wrap romance in the small town of Cut Corners. In Texas Christmas Grooms, the beauty of the Lone Star State serves as a backdrop for two historical romance novellas where don't-tie-me...

  • A Time for Angels

    Sandie Petit

    Hand-crafting Christmas angels and giving them away as gifts sets love in motion for two couples, making the holiday even more special. This unique collection, A Time for Angels, includes two wonderfully written novellas, as well as patterns for read...

  • Untamed

    Kathleen Lawless

    Welcome to the wild, wild West -- where desire and danger come to a draw. When Paris Sommer finds the secret diary of her great-great-grandmother, who ran an infamous bordello in the old West, her secret fantasies are ignited. Putting her librar...

  • A View of the River

    Kathleen Eagle

    If you look closely enough, you can find love everywhere. A descendant of a courageous band of Ojibwe, Birch Trueblood is now a local shaman doing a booming business with the New Age believers and tourists. With a young daughter to care for, he ma...

  • Where the Kissing Never Stops

    Ron Koertge

    Propelled by Ron Koertge's rapid-fire repartee, this is the funny and touching tale of a winningly honest protagonist discovering the perils and rewards of family, friendship, and romance.

    "Anyway," Sully said, "I've got just what you need to ...

  • Buried

    Paul Lindsay

    Inside a nondescript cinder-block building in Manhattan, beyond the misleading sign that reads "Global Fish" and the attractive plainclothes FBI employee at the reception desk, Special Agent Nick Vanko is running a surprisingly successful undercover ...

  • Circle of the Dead

    David Lawrence

    The man died of a broken heart. Literally. But what broke his heart was a sharp object shoved hard between his ribs. When they found him he was sitting in a circle with three other corpses in a London apartment. That's when Detective Stella Mooney go...

  • Dead of Winter

    Stuart M. Kaminsky

    Detective Mac Taylor is a dedicated and driven crime-scene investigator who believes that everything is connected and everyone has a story. He and his partner, Detective Stella Bonasera, lead a team of experts through the gritty and kinetic world of ...

  • The Door to Bitterness

    Martin Limon

    The fourth Sergeant George Sueño InvestigationSeoul, 1970s: As North Korea menaces and Vietnam burns, US 8th Army CID agent Sergeant George Sueño and his partner, Ernie Bascom, weave through back alleys and bordellos, trying to tip the scales of ju...

  • Fiddlers

    Ed McBain

    Ed McBain’s last installment in the 87th Precinct series finds the detectives stumped by a serial killer who doesn’t fit the profile. A blind violinist taking a smoke break, a cosmetics sales rep cooking an omelet in her own kitchen, a college pr...

  • Fury

    Robert K. Tanenbaum

    In Brooklyn, a female jogger is brutally raped; the assailants are convicted and later exonerated by the Kings County DA. Now the guilty are filing a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the city of New York, the police, and the two Brooklyn Assistant...

  • Immoral

    Brian Freeman

    In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twist...

  • The Man Who Smiled

    Henning Mankell

    After killing a man in the line of duty, Kurt Wallander resolves to quit the Ystad police. However, a bizarre case gets under his skin. A lawyer driving home at night stops to investigate an effigy in the middle of the highway. The lawyer is hit o...

  • Point Blank

    Catherine Coulter

    FBI agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich face the most dangerous case of their careers in Catherine Coulter's explosive new thriller. Point Blank's propulsive story takes off when FBI agents Dillon Savich and Dane Carver are nearly killed whil...

  • Still Life

    Louise Penny

    As the early morning mist clears on Thanksgiving day, the homes of Three Pines come to life -- all except one... Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surete du Quebec and his team of investigators are called in to the scene of a suspicious death ...

  • Tilt-a-Whirl

    Chris Grabenstein

    There isn't much sun in the fun when a billionaire real estate tycoon is found murdered on the Tilt-A-Whirl at a seedy seaside amusement park in the otherwise quiet summer tourist town of Sea Haven. John Ceepak, a former MP just back from Iraq, has j...

  • Blood Lust

    J.M. Jeffries

    Mignon du Plessis has many secrets. Among them, she is a vampire, a hunter of the Pledged to The Order of Romulus, only Mignon executes her own. For over two centuries, her mission has been keeping humanity safe from the darkness. New Orleans Detecti...

  • Dark Lover

    J.R. Ward

    In the shadows of the night in Caldwell, New York, there's a deadly turf war going on between vampires and their slayers. There exists a secret band of brothers like no other--six vampire warriors, defenders of their race. Yet none of them relishes k...

  • Fangs for the Memories

    Kathy Love

    OH, BROTHER! There are Christmas mornings and then there are Christmas mornings like this one: watching my brother, Rhys, swagger through our New York City apartment...smiling. We are talking about Rhys, the detached, surly and annoying; the man wh...

  • Heart of the Dragon

    Gena Showalter

    Their forbidden love would either bring their worlds together -- or tear them both apart... Searching for her missing brother, Grace Carlyle never dreamed she would discover a secret world populated by mythological monsters -- or find herself facing...

  • The Master

    Melanie Jackson

    Long ago the hobgoblin Qasim was turned to darkness, was made a master of evil. His newest plot is a sacrifice of unspeakable horror that will mean full-fledged war between all species. There exists hope to fight back. Nicholas Anthony, an ER doctor,...

  • Out of the Night

    Robin T. Popp

    OUT OF THE DARKNESS Lanie Weber isn't afraid of danger. As a volunteer firefighter, this seemingly mild-mannered librarian has faced life-or-death situations before-and survived. But she has no idea what's waiting for her in the dark Amazon jungle...

  • Really Unusual Bad Boys

    Maryjanice Davidson

    THEY'RE JUST THE SEXY BOYS NEXT DOOR. IF NEXT DOOR IS A WEIRD, WEIRD PLACE. Meet Damon, Maltese, and Shakar--three noble brothers from an enchanted kingdom where wooing and pleasuring is practically a royal commandment. They're hot. Irresistible. ...

  • Revenge Gifts

    Cindy Cruciger

    TARA COLE SPECIALIZES IN REVENGE In fact, she's an expert. Lace pillows filled with cat hair--for your least-favorite, most allergic relative; boxer shorts that set off metal detectors--for your cheating spouse; and her best seller at Revenge Gift...

  • Single White Witch

    Carly Alexander
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    Sure, you can turn Mr. Oh-So-Wrong into a toad, but finding Mr. Right isn't any easier for a witch. And choosing between conjuring up a new pair of Manolos and working on another love spell can be tough. After all, fabulous heels don't forget to call...

  • The Smoke Thief

    Shana Abe

    In this bewitching novel, Shana Abe transports us to an exhilarating world of romance, adventure, and magic. Here, among northern England's misted hills, live a race of extraordinarily beautiful and sensual beings with the ability to shape-shift from...

  • Spell of the Highlander

    Karen Marie Moning

    It's taken him eleven centuries to find the right woman. He's not about to lose her now. Jessi St. James has got to get a life. Too many hours studying ancient artifacts has given the archaeology student a bad case of sex on the brain. So she fig...

  • The Trouble with Witchcraft

    Holly Chamberlin
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    Sure, you can turn Mr. Oh-So-Wrong into a toad, but finding Mr. Right isn't any easier for a witch. And choosing between conjuring up a new pair of Manolos and working on another love spell can be tough. After all, fabulous heels don't forget to call...

  • Wanted: One Sexy Night

    Judi McCoy

    SHE'S GOING TO ROCK BOTH THEIR WORLDS ... After a long day of directing a top-secret government agency, even Lucas Diamond needs his rest. Trouble is, a mysterious, very sexy, and damn near perfect woman has just stepped into his hotel room, and she...

  • The Witch's Guide to Life

    Theresa Alan
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    Sure, you can turn Mr. Oh-So-Wrong into a toad, but finding Mr. Right isn't any easier for a witch. And choosing between conjuring up a new pair of Manolos and working on another love spell can be tough. After all, fabulous heels don't forget to call...

  • Cinnamon Kiss

    Walter Mosley

    In this thrilling mystery, Easy Rawlins takes a job to find a missing attorney and his beautiful assistant -- and faces danger around every corner. It is the Summer of Love and Easy Rawlins is contemplating robbing an armored car. It's farther outsid...

  • First Kill

    Michael Kronenwetter

    Hank Berlin and Jack Drucker had been friends since grade school---and both in love with Elizabeth Kermanski. Early on, however, Hank saw that he was out of the running, and made the best of it. They still remained friends. The friendship was only to...

  • School Days

    Robert B. Parker

    When a Massachusetts boy is accused of mass murder, his socially prominent grandmother, who hires Spenser to investigate, is convinced of his innocence. But Spenser isn't convinced of anything--except that there's trouble ahead......

  • Without a Word

    Carol Lea Benjamin

    A woman vanished -- without a word and without a trace -- five years ago. The daughter she left behind hasn't spoken since. And now the troubled young girl stands accused of a shocking and brutal crime. The distraught stranger at the Washington Squa...

  • Before The Last Lap

    Joyce Lavene; Jim Lavene

    This time the mystery for Sheriff Sharyn Howard and her Diamond Springs deputies hits a little bit closer to home. After a speeding boat flies up over the pier and onto the street, the sheriff's department investigates. They become personally involve...

  • Dead Game

    Kirk Russell

    Named one of the top ten crime novels of 2005 by the American Library Association, Deadgame marks the return of "far and away the most inventive new detective hero" (Booklist). Ex-DEA agent John Marquez, now head of the undercover unit of the Califor...

  • A Dead Man in Istanbul

    Michael Pearce

    From the author of the award-winning Mamur Zapt books, the second in a series introducing Seymour of Special Branch and set in the British embassies and Consulates of Europe in the early 1900s. The Second Secretary of the Embassy in Istanbul has died...

  • The Firemaker

    Peter May

    Margaret Campbell, a Chicago forensic pathologist, has been invited by the Chinese government to teach at the Beijing police university. She has accepted the six-week assignment with misgivings but is desperate to escape a troubled life in America. A...

  • Gagged and Bound

    Natasha Cooper

    Barrister Trish Maguire tackles a thirty-year-old terrorism case when distinguished biographer, Beatrice Bowman, hires her to fight a libel claim by a new ennobled member of the House of Lords who says she misidentified him as one of the terrorists w...

  • Guilt Trip

    Ben Rehder

    Turkey season is in progress, former juvenile delinquent Lucas Burnett's house just exploded, and a Ford Explorer is floating downstream after a gullywasher. It's another ordinary day in Blanco County, Texas... Game warden John Marlin hopes that L...

  • Nervous Water

    William G. Tapply

    In one of the finest novels yet in Tapply's long-running series, Nervous Water explores the previously hidden past of his much beloved character, Boston attorney Brady Coyne. Contacted by an aged relative with whom he'd long lost touch, Brady agrees ...

  • Troubleshooter

    Gregg Hurwitz

    The maestro of pulse-pounding suspense delivers an explosive new white-knuckle thriller featuring deputy U.S. Marshal Tim Rackley -- a lawman driven by honor, morality, and a thirst for justice. The leader of one of the country's most violent biker g...

  • When Secrets Die

    Lynn S. Hightower

    They have kept the heart of her child... They have accused her of murder... Angels of mercy...or the devil in disguise? Who owns your body, anyway? Lynn Hightower's novels have tackled such diverse subjects as female serial killers and lethal debt c...

  • Pilgrims

    Mary Pope Osborne

    Learn the true story of Thanksgiving with the #1 bestselling chapter book series of all time, Magic Tree House! Track the facts with Jack and Annie in this nonfiction companion to Magic Tree House #27: Thanksgiving on Thursday! When Jack and An...

  • Star Trek Comic Classics: To Boldly Go

    Mike W. Barr

    These are the classic comics adventures of Kirk, Spock and the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, now collected in graphic novel format with exclusive new background material!

    In the aftermath of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, when the Klingons ...

  • Case of the Food Fight

    James Preller

    Looking for intriguing mysteries, great friendship stories, and quality chapter books for beginning readers? Look no further: Jigsaw and Mila are the best detectives on the market!

    FOOD FIGHT! When someone starts a food fight in the school caf...

  • Deadly Detail

    Don Porter

    It's Fairbanks, Alaska, during the construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline. Alex Price, a Bethel bush pilot, is looking forward to a pleasant evening visiting his old friend and prospecting partner Stan and Stan's lovely Athabaskan Indian wife, Ang...

  • Drive

    James Sallis

    Much later, as he sat with his back against an inside wall of a Motel 6 just north of Phoenix, watching the pool of blood lap toward him, Driver would wonder whether he had made a terrible mistake. Later still, of course, there’d be no doubt. But f...

  • Flush

    Carl Hiaasen

    Bestselling novelist Carl Hiaasen is back with another hysterical mystery adventure for young readers, set in the Florida Keys. Noah's dad has a little problem with anger control. He tried to stop the Coral Queen casino boat's illegal dumping . . ....

  • Fortune Cookie Karma

    L.F. Crawford

    The murder of a Beverly Hills psychic - fifth victim of the Ice Pick Killer - drafts Detective Art Murry and his partner Billy Kidman into a special LAPD task force, where Murry's intuitive hunches are ignored in favor of fitting together the "facts"...

  • Friends, Lovers, Chocolate

    Alexander McCall Smith

    In this delightful second installment in Alexander McCall Smith's bestselling detective series, the irrepressibly curious Isabel Dalhousie gets caught up in a highly unusual affair of the heart. When Isabel is asked to cover for vacationing Cat at...

  • The Game Store Mystery

    Gertrude Chandler Warner

    When a new store called the Game Spot opens in their town, the Aldens are thrilled. But it's not fun and games when the other stores at Crossroads mall are robbed. What's more, letters are disappearing from the sign in front of the shopping center!...

  • Grail Conspiracy

    Lynn Sholes; Joe Moore

    SNN Breaking News: Vatican Claims Grail Relic Authentic ROME - in an announcement to the world press, Cardinal Antonio Ianucci, Vatican Curator and Director of Art Antiquities, said the artifact recently discovered in Iraq is believed to be the cup...

  • Grave Review

    Cynthia Thomason

    In the second of the Jubilee Showboat Mysteries, Gwen Barlow, her mother, brother and a cast of colorful performers face another murder mystery on the Jubilee Palace showboat. This time the Jubilee has stopped in Moss Hollow, Kentucky, hometown of th...

  • Invitation to Murder

    Elizabeth Bright

    Jennifer Shane has just opened her own card-making business in Rebel Forge, Virginia. But she's beginning to wonder if it was such a good idea--especially since murder has left its calling card.... Custom Card Creations was Jennifer's chance to b...

  • Last Shot: A Final Four Mystery

    John Feinstein

    Danny Jordan is one of two lucky winners of the US Basketball Writer's Association's contest for aspiring journalists. His prize? A trip to New Orleans and a coveted press pass for the Final Four. It's a basketball junkie's dream come true! But th...

  • Lawnmower Blues

    Rex Anderson

    Houstonian Tony Aapt would do almost anything but sell hamburgers to get out of the Private Investigations business he inherited from his grandfather, along with a pile of debt, so he reluctantly subsists on what he wryly refers to as "domestic recon...

  • Minerva Clark Gets a Clue

    Karen Karbo

    Mark Clark took the spongy ends of the electrodes and dipped them in a bowl of salt water. He told the crowd salt water conducts electricity best. He then put one electrode on each temple, one behind my ear, and one smack in the middle of my forehea...

  • Murder Never Forgets

    Diana O'Hehir

    “Incisive wit . . . a sleuth worthy of comparison to Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot or Sue Grafton’s Kinsey Millhone.” -- James W. HallDiana O’Hehir beguiled audiences with I Wish This War Were Over, runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize. Now,...

  • Next of Kin

    Ami Elizabeth Reeves

    Welcome to Delight, Arkansas, where the roots of family trees grow so deep, old secrets poison the groundwater.

    When marathoner Sally Brown shows up in Arkansas, her sister Suzanne gives her such a chilly reception that even ten-mile runs can't w...

  • Officer Down

    Theresa Schwegel

    ONE COP LIES DEAD... The Chicago Police Department says Samantha Mack shot her partner, Fred, during the confusion of a bungled pursuit. Mack says it was their quarry, a violent pedophile named Marco Trovic, who fired the deadly round in that darken...

  • The Red Hot Empress

    Meredith Blevins

    Annie Szabo has discovered a miracle: Jimmy Qi, a kid from Chinatown with the power to heal using music. He's dazzling, he's a scoundrel, he's wise, and he makes a great newspaper article.
    But now everyone wants Jimmy: an evangelist; a tong societ...

  • Sacred Cows

    Karen E. Olson

    After a late night on the town, crime reporter Annie Seymour only wants to sleep. But a phone call from her editor drags her to a cold, wet New Haven street where she's soon staring at a murder victim who was a Yale student by day...and a high-priced...

  • Sainted Murder

    Jo A. Hiestand

    Winter's chill hits the Derbyshire uplands hard, but the busy preparations for December's annual St. Nicholas festival are in full swing in the village of Bramwell. The celebration is marked by baking bread for the poor and the elderly, but w...

  • Tuscan Termination

    Margaret Moore

    View to a Kill Murder simply doesn't happen in the lovely Tuscan hill town of Borgo San Cristoforo, not even to unpleasant, unscrupulous real estate agents like Ettore Fagiolo. Found floating facedown in a swimming pool, the gossip is that Ettore wa...

  • Uncommon Grounds

    Sandra Balzo

    Nothing marks opening day at a chic new gourmet coffee shop like an espresso machine rigged for death. When Patricia Harper, one of the three owners of Uncommon Grounds, is electrocuted while frothing the first latte, it's up to partner and coffee ma...

  • Whiskey on the Rocks

    Nina Wright

    Still reeling from her husband's sudden death, 33-year-old Whiskey Mattimoe has her hands full managing her real estate business and keeping track of Chester, the 8-year-old son of a touring superstar harpist. And then there's Abra--her late husband'...

  • Solomon vs. Lord

    Paul Levine

    Steve Solomon is the sharpest lawyer ever to barely graduate from Key West School of Law. Victoria Lord is fresh from Yale, toiling for an ambitious D.A. and soon to be married. And Katrina Barksdale is a sexy former figure skater charged with killin...

  • The March

    E.L. Doctorow

    In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed...